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Here’s what the change really means for U.S. citizens. Read more » about NSA Surveillance Programs Are Far From Over Despite New Limitations
It is difficult to think of two issues with a greater potential to negatively impact both our environment and the global economy than climate change and cyber attacks. Though long-term estimates on both are notoriously tough to pin down, contestedassessments on the cost of cyber attacks range from approximately $400 billion for 2014 to more than $3 trillion by 2020 (a figure, if true, larger than the global illegal drugs market). Read more » about On Climate Change and Cyber Attacks
Plenty of businesses rely on third-party payers: parents often pay for college; insurance companies pay most health care bills. Reaching out to potential third-party payers is hardly a new or revolutionary business practice. But someone should tell the Patent Office. Earlier this year, it issued US Patent No. 9,026,468 to Securus Technologies, a company that provides telephone services to prisoners. Read more » about Stupid Patent Of The Month: Infamous Prison Telco Patents Asking Third-Parties For Money
The launches of OnlineCensorship.org today and Ranking Digital Rights on November 3 will ensure technology companies serve--rather than squelch--the free flow of news online.
Both projects seek to independently document the policies and practices of tech companies on the issues of free expression and privacy. These data can then be used by civil society, academics, and competitors to ensure companies follow best practices.
The International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties (ASP) is meeting this week in The Hague — its 14th session. On the agenda (and here) are a Read more » about United States Intervention at the Meeting of the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties
In the last 24 hours many prominent politicians and pundits have said that they don’t want Syrian refugees to enter the United States. For example, Gov. Chris Christie has said that he doesn’t even want 5-year-old Syrian orphans to come into the country. Almost half of the country’s governors have said that they will refuse to allow Syrian refugees to come to their states. Read more » about This is the group that’s surprisingly prone to violent extremism
When Bernie Sanders said in his debate with Hillary Clinton that Denmark was a socialist country, which the United States ought to consider emulating, it created a big debate. Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen weighed in, saying that his country had a market economy, not a planned economy. Read more » about Bernie Sanders says Denmark is socialist. Forbes Magazine says it’s the most business-friendly country. Who’s right?
Lawyers for human rights lawyer and journalist Hossam Bahgat have confirmed that Bahgat was detained Sunday by military officials, apparently in retaliation for his coverageof the military trial of 26 military officers who were accused and convicted of planning a coup. Bahgat writes for Mada Masr, a progressive news website. Read more » about A Return to Authoritarianism in Egypt
The Transatlantic Digital Dialogue is a multi-stakeholder working group of experts from Germany and the United States. It was assembled and stewarded by the Stiftung Neue Verantwortung and the German Marshall Fund of the United States to develop a constructive agenda for the modernization of privacy/security policy that begins to address the global debate over digital surveillance. Read more » about Transatlantic Digital Dialogue: Rebuilding Trust through Cooperative Reform - See more at: http://www.gmfus.org/publications/transatlantic-digital-dialogue-rebuilding-trust-through-cooperative-reform#sthash.HaTczHTI.dpuf
In a move that could cost the EU up to 1.3 percent of its gross domestic product, according to the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union, on Oct. 6 the European Court of Justice invalidated the 15-year old EU-US Safe Harbor Agreement in Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, causing some consternation among the more than 5,000 European and U.S. firms that rely on the Agreement to transfer EU data to U.S. servers. Read more » about Seeking a Safe Harbor in a Widening Sea